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Lease Wife is a film of genre Drama directed by Lu Xuechang with Pan Yueming
Lease Wife (2006)
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Add to a movie listLease Wife (Chinese: 租期; pinyin: Zū Qī) is a 2006 drama film directed by Lu Xuechang, and is the story of a man who pays a prostitute to pretend to be his wife when he goes back to his village to visit his family. It is also known as The Contract.
Lease Wife is Lu's fourth feature film and stars Li Jiaxuan as the prostitute, Lily, and Pan Yueming as the businessman, Guo Jiaju, who hires her.
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Pan Yueming
(Guo Jiaju)
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